Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - Will Shortz, THEGOAT of crossword editors!
A wonderful Wednesday crossword, and a debut for constructor Lindsay McBride (kudos and all that!). We especially enjoyed 67A, Like matryoshka dolls, NESTED (we just like to say matryoshka); 32D, Goo...
19 Jan 202313min
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - This crossword made our day!
A fine Tuesday crossword, with a bilingual theme -- the best kind -- as well as some amusing clues (9D, Phrase sung 36 times in a 1970 Beatles hit, LETITBE; 6D, Bovine:cow::corvine:__________, CROW; a...
18 Jan 202319min
Monday, January 16, 2023 - Look out, MOTHRA's on the prowl!
A slightly more intense Monday crossword than usual, with several span-the-grid answers, but the cute theme (the constructor, Michael Paleos, definitely did not MAILITIN) made it all worthwhile. We've...
17 Jan 202312min
Sunday, January 15, 2023 - Great Caesar's ghost, what a crossword!
If you like literature, you'll love today's crossword, teeming with literary references, all in the cause of a fun theme. Even if you're not particularly well-versed in the classics, though, chances a...
16 Jan 202320min
Saturday, January 14, 2023 - APIA, gateway to paradise, aka Upolu, Samoa!
A straightforward Saturday puzzle, but it pegged the Fun Quotient meter so we will not complain. Au contraire, most of today's episode is spent singing its praises, for the clues are crisp, cute (but ...
15 Jan 202311min
Friday, January 13, 2023 - Ahoy, there's a RORQUAL on the starboard side!
Typically Friday crosswords do not have a theme, but since this was Friday the 13th, the editors (luckily) decided to take advantage of that day. Unlike some themes that only make sense after one has ...
14 Jan 202316min
Thursday, January 12, 2023 - We are MEGAFANs of this crossword!
A GEM of a Thursday crossword by Grant Thackray, who does some remarkable linguistic surgery, all for a good cause - a dizzying and dizzyingly good theme, in the middle of a grid-full of great clues. ...
13 Jan 202310min
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - EGAD this was a clever crossword!
A picture-perfect crossword, with an LOL theme, a geographically wide-ranging set of clues (from 35A, Manhattan neighborhood next to SoHo, NOLITA, to 36D,Hawaiian island shaped like an apostrophe, LAN...
12 Jan 202312min
